No kidding, I was just walking down a hallway in my building when I overhead the following quite loud conversational fragment through an open doorway: Angry woman's voice : "Why are you in the ladies room?! You are the third man to... oh no." Like Hobbes...

One of the most controversial features we've ever added was implicitly typed local variables , aka "var". Even now, years later, I still see articles debating the pros and cons of the feature. I'm often asked what my opinion is, so here you go. Let's...

Good morning everyone! I am pleased to tell you that the C# and VB teams are announcing a "refresh" of the async Community Technology Preview at MIX11 today, and that it is as of right now available on the Async CTP site . Recall that the CTP release...

Good heavens I can't believe it's been two years since I wished Channel 9 a happy fifth birthday . Obviously it's been a busy month for me doing interviews . If you're not sick of hearing me rattling on about compilers, Roslyn, and so on, check out my...

Today, another question from StackOverflow , and again, presented as a dialogue as is my wont. The MSDN documentation for List<T> says that the class is declared as public class List<T> : IList<T>, ICollection<T>, IEnumerable<T>...

Last time I discussed how the compound assignment operators of the form “ x op= y ” have some perhaps unobvious behaviours in C#, namely: (1) though logically this is expanded as “ x = x op y ”, x is only evaluated once (2)...